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1. :back_from_gab: :musashi_berseker: :abigail_williams: :musashi: :benienma: :astolfo: :chloe: 🏆🏆 winner of the Holy Gab War and Holy Poast War (zemichi@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 12:27:53 JST :back_from_gab: :musashi_berseker: :abigail_williams: :musashi: :benienma: :astolfo: :chloe: 🏆🏆 winner of the Holy Gab War and Holy Poast War

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   It's canon BTW in the play he's in :back_from_gab: :astolfo_wink: ✝️
   
   "When he reaches the palace, he realises that its glow comes from a single gemstone which had been cut by Daedalus. At the entrance to the palace is a silver-haired figure wearing pure white robes with a red cloak. This is Earthly Paradise, and he is being welcomed by Saint John the Evangelist. The saint tells Astolfo that he has been expected, as he is to save Christendom and Charlemagne from the Saracens and Moors.
   
   Astolfo is taken in for refreshments, where he meets Enoch, Elijah, and others. After a good night’s rest, Astolfo’s mission is explained by Saint John. Orlando has taken the wrong direction in his blind love for a pagan woman, and his madness is his punishment from God. It is Astolfo who will rescue Orlando’s mind, first by travelling to the moon that night and obtaining the means to cure Orlando of his madness.
   
   That evening Saint John harnesses four chestnut horses to the chariot which is to take them to the moon and back. He sits next to Astolfo, takes the reins and drives the chariot up through the sphere of fire and on to the moon."
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